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I was using regolith ubuntu on an old MacBook and fell in love with i3wm on x11 or whatever it uses. Got a new computer Intel and the composters never worked right scrolling pages or watching videos. I gave up and went back to stock ubuntu. Wayland works well for me but my question is how hard is it to build a de like regolith using awesome it some other tiler? It seems intimidating
Regolith can be set up to use sway instead so you can get i3 experience in Wayland. It's just a matter of picking the right package groups listed in their installation guide. I'm running it at work currently, had some issues with my Lenovo dock from time to time, but otherwise works pretty good.
If you like i3, Sway is i3 with Wayland. Afaik, even uses the same configs.
Don't you have to download a file manager search application etc? In addition to just the tiler
i3 is configured to use the program dmenu by default. A common replacement for that is rofi. I use wofi on sway. Rofi has more features, wofi is pretty simple but you can customize with css.
Sway will read the i3 config you already have if you put it in the sway config folder. Then just download dmenu if you want that same behavior. Some things like mod+enter is binded to i3-sensible-terminal, so if you don't have i3 installed on the box it won't find a terminal to open. The fix is to change the binding to your preferred terminal emulator.
All in all the transition is pretty painless.
I believe so, yes. Some distros have Sway as an option, and they often have all of that picked for you, but if you're rolling your own setup, you'll need to choose your own.
TIL there is a DE called regolith. I don't know much about WMs, but I hear a lot of noise about hyprland. Never tried it but a lot of people swear by it, and it runs solely on Wayland.
Hi I just checked it out looks awesome. Unfortunately going down the rabbit hole again is looking less appealing. That's what I liked about regolith, maybe I'm happy with gnome after reading the hyprland wiki 😅
This guy has a ton of videos on it. He even has a script that you can run and it installs everything for you. I used his channel when I tried hyprland a couple of months ago for the first time in my life. Lol